Managing the Unmanageable – Silicon Valley Project Management

Keep Your Culture Positive!

By Ron Lichty / June 6, 2013

Which is more effective to improve team performance: positive feedback or constructive criticism? a positive culture or a negative one? […]

By Ron Lichty / June 4, 2013

We’re at an inflection point. Agile practices transitioned over the last couple years from “emerging” to “predominant”. Companies are sampling

By Ron Lichty / June 2, 2013

I’ve been enamored of remote pair programming since briefly leading development at Socialtext, where no three developers were in the

By Ron Lichty / January 31, 2013

What makes product teams great? What if you were able to name just five things that: if you don’t do

By Ron Lichty / January 11, 2013

In 2012’s Study of Product Team Performance, respondents were asked what they would change about the core product team. “Better

By Ron Lichty / January 10, 2013

One of the great “aha”s for me as a manager was realizing that motivating people – and not de-motivating them

By Ron Lichty / January 7, 2013

I am repeatedly in conversations with someone who refers to “PMs”. And I have to figure out which kind of

By Ron Lichty / December 21, 2012

Programming managers have typically had years of training in programming… And no training in management. I’ve been taking a fascinating

By Ron Lichty / December 19, 2012

For years, I’ve been pointing development and project managers to the full-length documentary, Tom Dowd & the Language of Music.